SAP HANA Spatial Predicates and Geometry Methods
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Tutorials that teach this
- Tutorial Use a Cost Function to Calculate Shortest Path
- Tutorial Transformation methods
- Tutorial Analyze Graph Workspace in SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA Database
- Tutorial Identify Relevant Networks in Spatial Data
- Tutorial Understand Spatial Columns in SAP HANA Spatial
- Tutorial Connect Nodes, Centroids and Voronoi Cells to POI
- Tutorial Computation methods
- Tutorial Understand Polygons in SAP HANA Spatial
- Tutorial Understand Strings in SAP HANA Spatial
- Tutorial Add Advanced Geospatial Processing with Hibernate
Prerequisites
- Concept SAP HANA Cloud Spatial Engine The concept name was not provided (marked as "undefined"), and the available source snippets do not contain enough extractable detail — most are bare tutorial titles without body text — to construct a fully grounded 2–4 sentence prose definition. Please supply the concept name and richer source excerpts so an accurate definition can be written.
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Reference Systems (SRS) The concept name is missing or undefined, so a specific definition cannot be written. Please provide a valid SAP developer concept to define.
- Concept Well-Known Text (WKT) and ST_GeomFromText in SAP HANA A definition cannot be written because no concept was provided and the supplied sources do not identify a specific SAP developer concept to define. Please provide a valid concept name so that a grounded definition can be produced.
- Concept SAP HANA Voronoi Cells (ST_VoronoiCell) A **Voronoi Cell** is a spatial region associated with a point of interest (POI) that partitions a plane based on proximity to a centroid node. Developers use it in SAP spatial scenarios to connect nodes, centroids, and POIs, as well as to render geographic boundaries visually using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Polygon Types and Operations A **polygon** in SAP HANA Spatial is a geometric shape used to represent a closed, two-dimensional area defined by a boundary of connected line segments. Developers use polygons to model real-world regions — such as land parcels, zones, or territories — and apply spatial computation methods to them, such as calculating area, checking containment, or determining intersections with other geometries.
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Column Types (ST_GEOMETRY, ST_POINT) The concept name is missing or undefined, so a precise definition cannot be written. Please provide the specific SAP developer concept you would like defined so it can be accurately described based on the available sources.
Concepts that build on this
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Aggregation Methods (ST_UnionAggr, ST_EnvelopeAggr, ST_ConvexHullAggr)
- Concept Querying Points of Interest with SAP HANA Spatial
- Concept Hibernate Spatial Integration with SAP HANA
- Concept SAP HANA Graph Algorithms (Neighbors, Shortest Path)
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Distance Calculation
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Transformation Methods (ST_Boundary, ST_Envelope, ST_ConvexHull, ST_Buffer)
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial LineString and CircularString Types
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Hexagonal Clustering
- Concept Geospatial Data Processing in Java